| The book is divided into 15 Chapters. The book includes a DVD with 16 videos to be viewed almost at the end of every chapter. The videos are good “eye openers” and speak a lot of meaning. At the end of every chapter beginning in Chapter 4, there is a Question and Answer portion, these are off topic questions [sometimes] but has a lot of wisdom and good answers.
Chapters:
Chapter 1-The Pain
Chapter 2-The Problem
Chapter 3-The Solution
Chapter 4-Discover Your Voice
Chapter 5-Express Your Voice
Chapter 6-Inspiring Others to Find Their Voice-The Leadership Challenge
Chapter 7-The Voice of Influence
Chapter 8-The Voice of Trustworthiness
Chapter 9-The Voice and Speed of Trust
Chapter 10-Blending Voices
Chapter 11-One Voice
Chapter 12-The Voice and Discipline of Execution
Chapter 13-The Empowering Voice
Chapter 14-The 8th Habit and the Sweet Spot
Chapter 15-Using Our Voices Wisely to Serve Others
My Notes:
Recap: 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
1. Be proactive
2. Begin with the end in mind
3. Put first things first
4. Think Win-Win
5. Seek first to understand then to be understood
6. Synergize
7. Sharpen the saw
8. Find your voice and inspire others to find theirs
Two Steps to 8th Habit
A. Find your voice
-engage in work that genuinely taps your talents and fuels your passion
-to do something significant with your career
-to sense an unmet need
-harness all your talents and passion to meet that need
-to take the path to greatness rather than settling for mediocrity
B. Inspire others to find their voices
-continue your achievements by helping others finding their voice as well
-recognize, respect and create meaningful opportunities for others to express their voices
-to breathe life into another
-encourage and positively influence others within your organization
Focus
1. Expand your influence
2. Be trustworthy
3. Build trust
4. Blend other’s voices
5. Create a common vision
Execution
1. Align goals and systems
2. Empower others
Voice-Unique Personal Significance
1. Talent-natural gifts and talents
2. Need-know what the world needs [or workplace, or community]
3. Conscience-still small voice
4. Passion-things that naturally energize, excite, motivate and inspire
Life is too short-mindset change
1. To Live
2. To Love
3. To Leave a legacy
5 Ages of Civilization
1. Hunter/Gatherer Age
2. Agricultural Age
3. Industrial Age
4. Information/Knowledge Worker Age
5. Wisdom Age
Video Lesson Max and Max:
1. Do your job and your job only disease
2. Confusing leadership disease
3. Initiative killers
Whole Person Paradigm-4 Dimensions of a Person
1. Mind-To learn, growth and development
2. Body-To live, survival
3. Heart-To love, relationship
4. Spirit-To leave a legacy, meaning and contribution
6 Levels of Choice
1. Rebel or Quit
2. Malicious obedience
3. Willing compliance
4. Cheerful cooperation
5. Heartfelt commitment
6. Creative excitement
A Great Organization
1. Can sustain long term growth
2. Provide prosperity
3. Contribute to the world
Habit is the glue of:
1. Knowledge
2. Attitude
3. Skills
Hardwired Birth Gifts
1. Freedom and power to choose
2. Principles [natural laws-universal, timeless, self-evident]
3. The 4 Intelligences/Capacities
IQ-Mental
PQ-Physical/Economic
EQ-Emotional/Social
SQ-Spiritual
Stimulus and Response is separated by our Freedom to Choose
5 Component of Emotional Intelligence-EQ
1. Self-awareness
2. Personal motivation
3. Self-regulation
4. Empathy
5. Social skills
Components of Spiritual Intelligence
1. Integrity-being true to one’s highest values and conscience
2. Meaning-a sense of contribution to people and causes
3. Voice-aligning work with one’s unique calling and gifts
Video Lessons: Law of the Harvest
Preparation
Patience
Respect Law of Nature
Acknowledge Human Element
Avoid shortcuts
4 Leadership Must Haves
1. Have a vision-Mind
2. Have discipline-Body
3. Have passion-Heart
4. Have a conscience-Spirit
Traits of Significant Person
A-Vision-Mental Intelligence/Capacity
1. Idealistic
2. Long term perspective
3. Anticipates failure
4. Dreamer
5. People believer
6. Sets expectations
7. Philosophical
8. Pioneering
9. Strategic Thinker
10.Hopeful
11.Outside the box
B- Discipline-Physical Intelligence/Capacity
1. Realistic
2. Focused
3. Execution
4. Constant
5. Takes initiatives
6. Committed
7. Hard working
8.Tenacious
9. Willing to sacrifice
10. Self-disciplined
11. Competent
12. Consistent
13. Decisive
C-Passion-Emotional Intelligence/Capacity
1. Optimistic
2. Hope
3. Synergistic
4. Courageous
5. Emphatic
6. Inclusive
7. Affirming
8. Fearless
9. Challenging
10. Sensitive
11. Motivating
12. Fun
13. Influential
14. Humor
15. People oriented
D-Conscience-Spiritual Intelligence/Capacity
1. Enthusiastic
2. Intuitive
3. Takes responsibility
4. Moral
5. Wise
6. Integrity
7. Servant
8. Humble
9. Fair
10. Abundant
11. Ethical
12. Inspired
13. Compassionate
14. Respectful
15. Cause oriented
What do successful leaders do?
1. Set direction-vision, customers, future
2. Demonstrate personal character-habits, integrity, trust, analytical thinking
3. Mobilize individual commitment-engage others, share power
4. Engender organizational capability-build teams, manage teams
4 Primary Management Practices
1. Strategy-devise and maintain a clearly stated focused strategy
2. Execution-develop and maintain flawless operation execution
3. Culture-develop and maintain a performance oriented culture
4. Structure-build and maintain a fast, flexible, flat organization
7 Levels of Initiative
1. Wait until told.
2. Ask
3. Make a recommendation
4. I intend to
5. Do it and report immediately
6. Do it and report periodically
7. Do it
5 Cancerous Behaviors
1. Criticizing
2. Complaining
3. Comparing
4. Competing
5. Contending
Survey Said: “Character of Effective Leader”
1. Integrity [the top quality]
2. Communicator
3. People Focused
4. Visionary
5. Caring
6. Decision Maker
7. Dedicated
8. A Model
9. Motivator
10. Expert
11. Courageous
Effective Team/Individual
1. Clear Mission and Values
2. Goals are set
3. Plan Weekly
4. Plan Daily
Types/Levels of Listening
1. Ignoring
2. Pretend Listening [patronizing]
3. Selective Listening
4. Attentive Listening
5. Empathic Listening [within the other’s frame of reference][highest level]
Solution Continuum
1. Lose-Win/Win-Lose [transaction]
2. Compromise [transaction]
3. Mutual understanding [without agreeing] [transformation]
4. Win-Lose/Lose-Win [with increased understanding and caring] [transformation]
5. Compromise on issue [synergy in relationship] [transformation]
6. Synergy on issue and in relationship [transformation][stay on this]
Video Lessons: Goal
1. Unable to identify top goal and priorities
2. Not passionate about the goal
3. Less time spent on goals
4. Don’t understand what to do
Video Lessons: Berlin Wall
1. Barriers exist within people
2. Barriers prevents communication
3. Barriers cannot be broken in a short time
4. Barriers are sometimes spiritual-unseen
5. People are different even after the barrier is taken down
Point of View Changes the World
You cannot change the world
But you can change the facts
And when you change the facts,
You changes point of view
When you change the point of view,
You can change the world
Survey Said: What is holding Empowerment?
1. Manager afraid to let go [let go of micromanagement]
2. Misaligned systems
3. Manager lack skills
4. Employee lack skills
5. Employee don’t want responsibility
6. Manager too busy
7. Management too controlling
8. Lack of company vision
9. Employee don’t trust manager
10. Employee lack integrity
A Servant Leader 5 Questions
1. How is it going?
2. What are you learning?
3. What are your goals?
4. How can I help you?
5. How am I doing as a helper?
4 Roles of Leadership
1. Modeling-Inspire trust without expecting it [personal moral authority]
2. Pathfinding-create order without demanding it [visionary moral authority]
3. Aligning-nourishes both vision and empowerment without proclaiming them [institutional moral authority]
4. Empowering-unleashes human potential without externally motivating it [cultural moral authority]
Modes of Communication
1. Hostility [1+1=-1] [contention]
2. Defensive Communication [1+1=5] [contention]
3. Communication Compromise [1+1=1.5] [transaction]
4. Synergy-Third Alternative [1+1=3, 10, 100] [transformation]
Execution Gap
1. Unable to identify top goals and priorities
2. Not passionate about the goal
3. Less time spent on goals
4. Don’t understand what to do
Requisite of a successful team:
1. Mission-clear purpose
2. Strategic planning-main strategy on how to accomplish the mission
3. Structure-detailed roadmap of actions; people, resources, tools [templates, database, spreadsheets, documentation
Mission Statement
1. should encompass your sense of purpose, your vision and your values
2. strategic plan-crisp descriptions of how you will provide value to your customer [value proposition]; focus and voice
3. strategic plan=action plan, realizing your vision and values everyday
Level 5 Leadership Hierarchy
Level 1-Highly Capable Individual, makes productive contributions through talent, knowledge, skills and good work habits
Level 2-Contributing Team Member, contributes to the achievement of group objectives, works effectively with others in a group settings
Level 3-Competent Manager, organizes people and resources toward effective and effective pursuit of predetermined objectives
Level 4-Effective Leader, catalyzes commitment to and vigorous pursuit of a clear and compelling vision; stimulates the group to high performance standards
Level 5-Executive, builds enduring greatness through a paradoxical combination of personal humility plus professional will |
